BBC Proms
Season 66 Episode 1 - First Night of the Proms
The 118th season of BBC Proms gets underway at the Royal Albert Hall with a spectacular concert of all-English music. In the year of the London Olympics there is something of a relay race around the podium with no less than four conductors passing the baton in the course of the evening - Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner and Martyn Brabbins. Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is the soloist in Delius' evocative Sea Drift, and a quartet of Proms favourite singers feature in Elgar's Coronation Ode - Susan Gritton, Sarah Connolly, Robert Murray and Gerald Finley. Elgar's effervescent Cockaigne Overture, Tippett's Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles and a brand new virtuosic curtain-raiser by Mark-Anthony Turnage complete the programme. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus take their traditional place on stage for a special First Night.
Episodes in Season 66
First Night of the Proms
180 min
Strauss and Sibelius
180 min
Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 1 and 2
180 min
Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 3 and 4
180 min
Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 6
180 min
Barenboim Conducts Beethoven Symphonies 7 and 8
180 min
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
180 min
Bach's Mass in B minor
180 min
Bruckner's 8th Symphony
180 min
Handel's Water Music
180 min
A Fantasia of English Music
180 min
Bruckner's 6th Symphony
180 min
An Evening with Ivor Novello
180 min
Vaughan Williams Night
180 min
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
180 min
From the New World
180 min
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
180 min
The Romantics
180 min
Gilbert and Sullivan
180 min
Wallace and Gromit at the Proms
180 min
Wagner and Strauss
180 min
Elgar's First Symphony
180 min
Bernstein's Mass
180 min
Haitink Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
180 min
Last Night of the Proms - Part 1
180 min
